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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Billie Jean King

I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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Art Game Moving Player Tennis
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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Athlete Men Point Reach Sports Time
Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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Focus Mean Play
The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Failure Matter Winning
Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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Asking Dancing Singing Stop
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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Since Sports Tennis Years
As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
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Games Needs Pipeline Stars Tennis
I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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Kings Law Recognition Sports
It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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Birthday Down Today Upside
Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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Build Connection Hope Over Stronger Time World
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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Gone Important Responsibility
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

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